Tag: Wide Open
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New Tracer Gets Intenser
Click or not: New Tracer Gets IntenserIntense Cycles never rest on their laurels, with new bikes and tweaks to their range continuing to forge their position as an industry innovator. The latest Tracer has just been dropped and it’s a beast, with more travel and a more aggressive stance placing it firmly at the rowdier end of the trail bike spectrum.… …
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Ridden: Intense Recluse
Click or not: Ridden: Intense RecluseRight about now Intense Cycles are pulling yet another new bike from the shed, and we’ve been able to get a few rides in on it. The Recluse is a mid-travel bike with a slant towards the rowdy end of things. With 27.5 hoops, Boost, a 150mm Fox 36 fork and 140mm of Float X2 damped rear… …
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Insider Rides: Grom’s Tracer 275c
Click or not: Insider Rides: Grom’s Tracer 275cInsider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. For this instalment, we are shown around the Intense Tracer 275c of Kris ‘Grom’ Withington, guru at Wide Open Distributors in Rotorua and former mechanic for the Garmin pro road racing team. While Kris still… …
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Keegan Wright: From Pest to One of the Best
Click or not: Keegan Wright: From Pest to One of the BestWith a bar set high, a podium step which is harder to crack than your workmate’s Facebook password, and a rich heritage of producing some of the world’s finest racers, New Zealand’s elite downhill scene does not seem like an easy thing to break into. Rotorua’s Keegan Wright is forcing his way into the club, quickly shimmying up the… …
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Worn: POC Tectal Race
Click or not: Worn: POC Tectal RaceI used to own a Volvo. A boxy, solid looking 850T5 wagon, like the ones they used to race. It was luxurious to drive, when it was going, and like all Volvos it just felt safe. Like you could run it into a truck and the truck would come off second best. The point I’m… …